The Duke Corner Store in downtown Kitchener has been an important neighbourhood resource for years and is now under pressure from the building's landlord and other forces to close. This episode features an interview with Kitchener based human rights activist Julian Ichim, who has been working with Nadine as she pushes back against eviction, police harassment, and racist institutions.
Today we speak with Stacey Gomez, a member of No One is Illegal Halifax/K’jipuktuk, and one of the many people working to support the Roblero Morales family as they struggle through the difficult process of seeking asylum and permanent residency from the Canadian state.
KW community members and No One is Illegal held a press conference and demonstration to halt deportation of Roblero Morales family.
This episode features a press release from the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs demanding a CGL stop work in their territory. The remainder of the show is a discussion with Julian Ichim and Jamie on the recent attacks on tent cities in Waterloo Region as well as the opioid poisoning epidemic.
On this episode of AW@L Radio you will hear voices from the 2019 Grassy Narrows River Run protest which took place June 20th 2019 in Toronto. Check out freegrassy.net for more information on the struggle against colonial violence and for justice at Grassy Narrows.
In this episode we get an update from John Hawke, an Anishinabek man from the Beausoleil First Nation and long time activist, who was arrested on July 28th 2019, after more than a month of organising a blockade and camp outside the entrance to Awenda provincial park. We also hear from Verna Friday, who is working with John on his legal defense.
Kitchener Waterloo Against Fascism is hosting a demo to protest violent far-right homophobes trying to organize in KW.
Kitchener Waterloo Against Fascism is hosting a demo to protest violent far-right homophobes trying to organize in KW.
An interview with John Hawke, an Indigenous man from the Beausoleil First Nation and long time activist, who on June 21st, 2019 - a day the Canadian state has proclaimed to be National Indigenous Peoples day - set up a blockade outside the entrance to Awenda provincial park north of Midland in Ontario.
An quick interview with long-time community activist and organiser Julian Ichim in which we get an update about Julian's current legal situation and the ongoing overdose prevention and tent city campaigns.
An interview with Louisa, a person working to support residents of 103-105 West Lodge Ave in Toronto as they have faced intermittent heat, power, and water service in their apartments from at least February 2019. The two high rise apartment buildings were recently bought by the multinational asset management firm Timbercreek who have focused on evicting residents through the landlord tribunal while letting the buildings fall further into disrepair.
Focusing on the ongoing war on drugs and the resultant public health emergency, this episode opens with the trailer for the new podcast "Crackdown" which features "Drug user activists covering the drug war as war correspondents", and continues with an interview with organisers of a "Pop-Up Overdose Prevention Site" in Kitchener-Waterloo.
Practicing their neoliberal ideology, the federal liberal government of Justin Trudeau introduced legislation to end the postal worker strike, as Doug Ford's conservatives also attacked workers rights with bill 47 in Ontario. Also, who will stop police budgets?
A callout to counter the PEGIDA demo in London on October 13th, a mention of an article "regarding lindsay shepherd", and a new visual guide to alt-right and fascist symbols.
An infiltrator is outed in the Hamilton activist scene and environmental justice organisers are urged to join and expand the fight against fascists forces at home and abroad. Also some #PrisonStrike and #PrisonRadio audio.
On this episode of AW@L Radio we are joined by animal-cruelty and fur-farm whistleblower Malcolm Klimowicz to discuss his arrest and censoring, his work with the endfurmfarming.com campaign, and the first day of the #minktrial, which is scheduled for July 5th 2018.
On this episode of AW@L Radio radio we hear from Kitchener ontario based human rights activist Julian Ichim who recently had 2 crowdfunding campaigns, aimed to pay for their prescription medication, shut down at the request of the US government.
with a provincial election in ontario on june 7th, this AW@L Radio highlights the corruption, bigotry, ignorance, and malice represented in the candidates for the conservative party. AW@L Radio host , dan kellar, also advocates for voting for the NDP as a harm reduction measure, to keep the dangerous policies of the conservatives and liberals out of power, and make life a little easier for everyone (but the rich).
for this AW@L Radio, we have a few updates about confronting racists and fighting for justice for all migrants, and an article along with audio on the outing of alt-right nazis. #EndImmigrationDetention #PunchNazis
as anti-racists plan to counter a far-right march in Quebec, anti-racists in Ontario challenge racist academic francis widdowson as she was hosted by the "laurier society for open inquiry". also the canadian anti-hate network (CAN) has launched and will work to track far-right movements.
this quick edit of an episode of AW@L Radio has an update of the ongoing issue of the students organising under the group name "laurier society of open inquiry" (LSOI), who keep trying to host and platform speakers who support/are racist, white nationalist, and/or anti-Indigenous rights under the shield of "free speech". also an update on the shameful canadian government efforts to block more asylum seekers from entering canada.
This episode of AW@L Radio looks at the tendency of free-speech warriors to platform extreme right-wing and hateful speakers, looking at an old example, and a contemporary one.
1. callout to resist Quebec 2018 G7 from antig7.org - 2. update on #LetLucyStay and #BringLucyBack - 3. right-wing targeted harassment of Nora Loreto
Responding to an unprovoked attack on his scholarship, by right-wing blow-hard Margaret Wente, professor Simon Springer, wrote a piece for theconversation.com titled "Anarchist Professor takes on hate speech".
on today's show we update folks on the anti-gentrification march in Hamilton which took place on March 3rd 2018, and subsequent vandalism against an anarchist space in #HamOnt, "The Tower". also discussed is the recent rise in right-wing violence and vandalism.
An interview with #RememberJan29 project co-creator Aliya Pabani on creating space for remembering the Grand Mosque massacre in Quebec City a year after the horrific incident.
An interview with a Rooster Town Blockade spokesperson as the land defenders are facing a lawsuit from the developer.
An interview covering the opioid and housing crises in Waterloo Region with specific detail on the tent city and the Overdose Prevention Team.
A movement celebrating a diversity of tactics is hitting Enbridge's Line 10 pipeline with a new wave of resistance with direct sabotage and ongoing protest.
Responding to the SCC's rejection of the Chippewas of the Thames First Nations challenge of the NEB's decision to allow the #line9 pipeline to have its flow reversed & to have the inline pressure increased—while also approving for the flow of #tarsands diluted bitumen and fracked oil—despite a complete failure to meaningfully consult any Indigenous community potentially impacted along the pipeline’s route, David-Gray Donald analysis 6 of the more absurd issues plaguing this high court decision. Here is a reading of the article.
